A study of more than 1 million women has found that excessive weight gain during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of ...

Many of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, share ...

For decades, medicine has chased a simple but elusive goal of delivering the right drug to the right place at the right time.

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Wistar scientists have developed a new type of bispecific T cell engager, or BTE, that is effective against ovarian cancer in preclinical studies. It's a major development for this type of ...

People with Lynch syndrome, the most common hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer, face a markedly increased cancer risk and therefore undergo regular colonoscopies. Researchers from the ...

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that attacks the central nervous system. For years, Epstein-Barr ...

Premature babies in the intensive care unit are particularly at risk of becoming infected with potentially pathogenic ...

Have you ever looked at a photograph of a raging wildfire, a flooded neighborhood or a starving polar bear and immediately ...

A Legionnaires' disease outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in New York City has claimed its first life, health ...

A research team from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) reports that a pathway-targeted therapy ...